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Dear Friends,
My sweetie went off on a trip several weeks back. Not long into the adventure, he got an alert saying my car needed air in one of its tires (yup, alerts for my car go to his phone…). He called and told me to put air in the front passenger tire. When I hesitated, he responded with a rather incredulous, “Don’t you know how to put air in the tires?”. I said no, when I should have admitted that the last time I tried the tire continued to lose pressure and a nice man at Get Go had to come to my aid. Next came his instructions for exactly what to do. Go to the air compressor in the garage, take the cap off the tire stem, take the red thing at the end of the hose,... I interrupt to say there isn’t a red thing, he insists there is, I insist there isn’t,... I then run upstairs to grab my cell phone so we can Facetime. We start again - “Oops - get the red thing off the shelf under the workbench, put it on the compressor hose, take the cap off the stem and wiggle the red thing on it until no air leaks out (that’s the part of the task no one ever explained to me before - no wonder I couldn’t do it!) and then press the handle. The valve will tell you when you’ve reached the correct pressure.” I follow the directions, then coil the hose back up, and pull out of the garage, only to find the front pressure is still too low, while the back is way, way too high. I call my sweetie again to explain, this time in tears, and he says, “Oops, when I rotated the tires I didn’t change the sensors, it’s really the back tire that needs air.” I guess the takeaway from the morning was “practice makes perfect”...
Wishing you a week filled with fun (not frustrating!) new experiences,
Mary Beth
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